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Ambulation Versus Standing on Postoperative Day 0

NCT02879188 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 394

Last updated 2019-03-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of the timing of physical therapy (PT) initiation on postoperative length of stay and the time to physical therapy clearance following total knee replacement.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Physical Therapy

Patients will initiate inpatient physical therapy on the day of their surgery including attempted ambulation with an assistive device that is supervised by a physical therapist.

OTHER

Standing

Patients will initiate inpatient physical therapy on postoperative day 1. On the day of their surgery they will dangle their feet over the edge of the bed with supervision of nursing.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rush University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Craig Della Valle, MD · Rush University Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2018-05-31
Completion
2018-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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